Female offenders
Subtitle: critical perspectives and effective interventions
By: [edited by] Ruth T. Zaplin.
Contributors: Zaplin, Ruth T.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
ISBN-13: 9780763741150
Subjects: Female offenders -- United States; Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- United States; Women prisoners -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of delinquent girls : how theory and practice have failed and the need for innovative changes / Joanne Belknap and Kristi Holsinger; title: The nature of female offending : patterns and explanation / Jennifer Schwartz and Darrell Steffensmeier; title: Female offenders : a systems perspective / Ruth T. Zaplin; title: Social treatment : a multiphased event / Frank B. W. Hawkinshire; title: The relational theory of women's psychological development : implications for the criminal justice system / Stephanie S. Covington; title: Power-belief theory : female criminality and the dynamics of oppression / Joyce Dougherty; title: Explanatory diversity among female delinquents : examining taxonomic heterogeneity / Tim Brennan; title: The treatment of female offenders : individual psychotherapy in systems-theory perspective / Bernard Weitzman; title: Pre-adjudicated and adjudicated girls' reports on their lives before and during detention and incarceration / Joanne Belknap and Bonnie Cady; title: Institutional assessment and classification of female offenders : from robust beauty to person-centered assessment / Tim Brennan; title: Mental health issues, treatment, and the female offender / Susan Baugh, Susan Bull, and Kathy Cohen; title: Female offenders and childhood maltreatment : understanding the connections / Joyce Dougherty; title: Surviving violence : women's strength through connection / Carolyn Swift; title: Needs assessment and treatment goal planning / Lorry Bradley; title: Meditation, emotions, and female offenders / Elaine J. Yuen; title: Preparing federal female offenders for reentry : shifting the paradigm to a skills-based model / John M. Vanyur, Nicole English, and Melinda Clark; title: Programs that work : mothers / Ruth T. Zaplin and Joyce Dougherty; title: Self-taught empowerment and pride : a multimodal/dual empowerment approach to confronting the problems of African American female offenders / Zelma Weston Henriques and Dolores Jones-Brown; title: College mentoring program for incarcerated girls / Kristi Holsinger; title: Evaluation of programs for female offenders / Kathleen Kendall; title: Applying strategic management techniques to female offender programs and organizations / Rob Cimperman; title: The "good hands" society : the application of insurance principles to uncivil actors and societal systems / David Zlowe; title: Looking toward the future : the female offender as customer / Ruth T. Zaplin.